Kinda like this right now Phil...lots of small things to do but I ran out of time June and July. Things have eased off and the place is livable but needs a finishing touch. I am back down for 10 days early October to fill the pool, amongst the numerous other small jobs in the house...and the first plant of the gardens - mainly heliconias and frangipani for now.

Kinda like this right now Phil...lots of small things to do but I ran out of time June and July. Things have eased off and the place is livable but needs a finishing touch. I am back down for 10 days early October to fill the pool, amongst the numerous other small jobs in the house...and the first plant of the gardens - mainly heliconias and frangipani for now.

We wanted a 'green - grey' tinted pool rather than blue, but it was guess work choosing the correctly coloured tiles. We have started adding the water from our rain tanks - the weather is maintaining a continuous supply from the gutters at this time of year...so it could be a free fill - weather god's blessings assumed! The weather forecast is complete rubbish for the next week - brilliant!

The pool filling season is upon us....we have emptied nearly all of the required 52,000 litres fom our storage tanks, furnished courtesy of regular rain over the last 2 weeks..10 cm or so to go!We chose tiles we hoped would give us the green tone we wanted...and the effectiveness of this has surpassed all of our expectations - the house, settings and pool can only be described as verdant - wonderful!

We can hopefully level and fire up the pipeless filter in the next couple of days! Exciting times...

Some info towards the bottom of page 16 of my story Phil...this product was freely available at Homemart...TUS brand.It comes in a variety of finishes - including aluminium and 'stainless'.I used it in the showers and for pool and deck edges - very pleased with it.

kiwimartin wrote:Some info towards the bottom of page 16 of my story Phil...this product was freely available at Homemart...TUS brand.It comes in a variety of finishes - including aluminium and 'stainless'.I used it in the showers and for pool and deck edges - very pleased with it.

pattayapope wrote:Just a word of warning the plastic will degrade in sunlight I ended up replacing all my external beading with the aluminum beading.

Yes I too used an Aluminium one, but it was only about 12 mm and Square shape.

I was actually looking for a 20 mm one, as I was considering using one as a Nosin, along the Verandah edge for my granite tiles. Failing that I will have to put a Chamfer on the tile edge and polish them

Over the past month or beyond we had a meccho in for a couple of days to shape the land, followed by heavy rains - the first of which moved large amounts of earth downhill - not surprising I guess, at least according to Newton.As a first measure we hurriedly planted 800 sq.m of Bermuda grass squares (the photos here are more than a month ago - the grass is now very lush and holding the hillside nicely. The price in BKK was very reasonable at around 18-23 baht p.m.We also bought trees at Nakon Nayok , just north of Bangkok ...trees there are a fraction of the cost compared with on the island (1 metre plumeria for 100 baht as compared to 1500 baht on Koh Phangan! And 50 cm bouganvillea 7 for 100 baht compared to 250 each).